How do you find new music?

[Sabena Shai]

Everyone has a different means to how they find new music that they listen to - ranging from radio to websites.

I personally use Youtube to find a lot of my new music. Pandora also helps, but it normally sticks to the same old songs if I don't constantly add new bands to a station.

 

[Soliath Devin Talith]

I go to my girlfriend and yell obnoxiously at her until she finds new things for me to listen to.

This strategy works well and i recommend it to everyone.

 

[Hailyn]

New music? What's that.

In all seriousness, most music I listen to is from the passed two decades, though some new music does pop up from time to time when I'm grabbing links on youtube for the songs I use here.

 

[Fabula Caromed]

Also Youtube, or occasional Spotify random collections. Also, I get a surprising amount of my music "suggested" to me by other people.

 

[Sabena Shai]

I go to my girlfriend and yell obnoxiously at her until she finds new things for me to listen to.

This strategy works well and i recommend it to everyone.

You're what I like to call a musical troglodyte. I still can't believe the first thought of "You Spin Me Right Round" is actually about the sampled version from Flo Rida.

New music? What's that. In all seriousness, most music I listen to is from the passed two decades, though some new music does pop up from time to time when I'm grabbing links on youtube for the songs I use here.

Finding older music is fine too. How do you find a lot of the music you listen to?

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

I honestly don't know.

I just kind of find it.

 

[Darth Carnifex]

Youtube, defs.

Or my friend Vlad, he usually throws some nice jams my way.

 

[Soliath Devin Talith]

[member="Sabena Shai"]

You don't know me.

 

[Hailyn]

You're what I like to call a musical troglodyte. I still can't believe the first thought of "You Spin Me Right Round" is actually about the sampled version from Flo Rida.




Finding older music is fine too. How do you find a lot of the music you listen to?

Years of radio in the 90's and early 2000's. Oh, and spotify to listen to the rest of those band's albums.

 

[Sabena Shai]

You don't know me.

I think this is appropriate for this moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjnvSrXNEPo

Spoiler

inb4 the hipsters show up to go crazy over Ben Folds

 

[Nikolas Faselli]

Spotify. Mainly from the Today's Top Hits playlist, sometimes from the Mood Booster.

 

[Khallesh]

I go to my girlfriend and yell obnoxiously at her until she finds new things for me to listen to.

This strategy works well and i recommend it to everyone.

Give us her number then!

 

[Khallesh]

Find a band I like from my playlist (which comes from a winamp playlist started in 1998) and hit the radio button in spotify.

 

[Ilias Nytrau]

Everywhere. Um, youtube, searching similar bands/genres to what I already listen to through the interwebs/wikipedia, friends, people on IRC during NaNoWriMo.

 

[Tiam Bai]

Depends, I have a heavy collection of old favorites (70s to early 2000s) that are the mainstay. To find new acts, its usually YouTube or Spotify. I've found a number of musical acts based on fan videos or TV shows/video games, i.e. The Walking Dead. I've also got friends with similar interests who will send a link or something similar my way once in awhile.

 

[Jack Sparrow]

YouTube, LastFM, "Later... with Jools Holland," and radio station WFUV are my mainstays.

 

[Darth Rixas]

Soundcloud and 8tracks.

I'll occasionally go through some of my subreddits for unheard/undiscovered music.

I use Youtube mainly for videos.

 

[Tinley Ling]

Mainly from random youtube videos and the radio.

 

[Greifen Ren]

YouTube playlists. Find a playlist of the genres I like, and see what new bands stick with me.

Browsing forums.

Word-of-mouth from like-minded people.

Rarely: I will get into something that one of my students bring to me to learn (I teach guitar).

Very rarely, doing a bit of album roulette and buying a random CD at the record store based upon superficial things like album cover alone. Has sometimes yielded surprisingly good results, other times been horribly disappointing as can be expected.

Almost never: local shows. There is no scene around me for the music I like the most, not counting myself.

 

[Rusty]

Spotify's Discover Weekly playlist can be relied upon to generate a couple of additions to the playlist a week,